Brock Brower
DEBRIS.
"Urower has taken a highly playable sit–
u ation and made a finely paced story of it. It reads
richly and stays on after the end, where, somehow,
what had seemed to be a story begins to haunt itself
with all sorts of second possibilities. I am trying to
say that the whole is marvelously greater than the
sum of its parts, which is, of course, the real art."
-JOHN CIARDI.
$4.95
Enid Starkie
FLAUBERT: THE MAKING OF THE MASTER.
Dr. Starkie's long-awaited literary biography makes
use of the most recent discoveries about her subject.
A highly readable portrait of a nineteenth century
master.
Illustrated.
$8.50
Kenneth Tynan
TYNAN RIGHT AND LEFT.
A choice selection of
this lively critic's writings of the past ten years, dem–
onstrating once again his mastery of theatre criticism
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fields other than the theatre.
$8.95
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even greater degree the "imaginative daring" J ames
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Dickey spoke of in reviewing Merwin's last book, .
The Moving Target;
a brilliant, seamless book.
Cloth $4.50; paper 1.95
Anthony Hecht
THE HARD HOURS.
Allen Tate says of the long–
awaited new book of poems by the author of
A Sum–
moning of Stones,
"We have got into the bad habit
of ranking our poets. I refuse to do this. I can only
say that whoever else may be at the top, Hecht is
there too; for there is nobody better."
Cloth $5; paper 2.45
Eric Bentley
THE THEATRE OF COMMITMENT
and other
Essays.
Bentley's magisterial
The Life of the Drama
established his position as our most distinguished
critic of the theatre. In this new book the title essay
speaks of the problems of political engagement in
the theatre, as exemplified by the work of Brecht,
Peter Weiss, and Hochhuth. It is supported by a
dazzling group of essays on the same theme. $5.00
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